Examples of Designer Viruses

As related in the prior blog post, nothing is quite so insidious as a virus that was deliberately planted in order to control and manipulate the lives of others. If one is willing to look objectively at the foundations of every world religion, the implications are frightening.

Although it is almost never done, there is one thing that should be done by every person who follows a religious belief system, and that is to look back at the very roots of your own religion and see how the mind viruses were shaped and implemented so that they became more and more effective. Once perfected, these mind viruses will control the congregation and spread themselves to others in the general public. At their worst, these designer viruses reach the point of absolute authority and are never questioned. In the case of Jim Jones, it was an especially effective designer mind virus that inspired people to kill their babies, family members and friends, before they committed suicide themselves.

Here is another very recent example of a fundamentalist Baptist pastor who is attempting to use a designer virus.

Pastor Steven Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, AZ is calling for the execution of gays. No joke. Listen to the two recordings at the link below and tell me whether this guy is spreading every bit as much hate as the Taliban in Afghanistan...and we sent our soldiers into that country in order to suppress THEIR free speech when it crossed the line into hate.

http://www.akawilliam.com/audio-arizona-pastor-calls-for-the-execution-of-gays/

This guy is actively planting a "designer mind virus" into the Tempe, AZ community and there needs to be a law to suppress that kind of activity. Based upon what his own YouTube posts report, the pastor is going door-to-door spreading his "true Bible" message, which includes putting homosexuals to death! It is putting the lives of American citizens into jeopardy. We all know that the lunatic Fred Phelps barely has one foot outside of an insane asylum, but this guy in Tempe, AZ is allowed to pass as a valid Baptist pastor. I did a cursory search and found no regulatory body within any Baptist assembly who were attempting to censor him or distance themselves from him. His congregation is listed in the largest on-line Baptist Church directory and he is therefore validated by other Baptist congregations.

The audio file also states this: "God Hates Barack Obama, I hate Barack Obama. I hate Him. God wants me to hate Barack Obama." "Someone who commits murder should get the death penalty." I guess in his warped mind President Obama is performing abortions in the basement of the White House.

So what is the connection between hate speech and terrorism? At the end of the day, we all need to realize that the most difficult form of terrorism to control is the kind that inspires one person to act alone. This kind of terrorism was successful in the following assassinations and attempted assassinations within US politics:

1) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2) President John F. Kennedy
3) Robert (Bobby) Kennedy (while running for president)
4) Abraham Lincoln
5) William McKinley
6) John Garfield
7) Andrew Jackson (attempted in 1835)
8) Franklin D. Roosevelt (attempted in 1933)
9) Harry Truman (attempted in 1950)
10) Gerald Ford (attempted in 1975)
11) Ronald Reagan (attempted in 1981)
12) The bombing of the Alfred P Murrah Building by Timothy McVeigh in 1995.

And recently the lesser well-known cases:
1) Dr. Tiller (the abortion doctor,) who was shot inside his own church.
2) Officer Stephen Johns, the Smithsonian guard who was shot by an elderly anti-Semite.

Extremism incites hate, and the tool of extremist leaders is the "designer mind virus." Figuratively speaking, it allows the leaders themselves to leave a loaded gun with carefully written instructions on the table and then leave the room. The leader really is not concerned with who it is that picks up the gun, but it was fully their intent to inspire somebody... anybody... to pick up the gun and use it. The designer virus ensures that whoever does pick up the gun will follow the carefully outlined instructions of the "virus." Timothy McVeigh was defending David Koresh as his "religious leader" when he committed the most violent terrorist act ever to take place on American soil prior to Sept 11th, 2001. The bombing was done on the second anniversary of the Waco Siege. He was a man who the courts would determine "acted alone," but it clear that he had been inspired into action by a religious designer virus.

Not all designer viruses inspire hate, but rather perpetuate discriminatory laws that have outlived their time. It took more than 100 years to eradicate the designer virus out of the minds of the US elected officials before the Civil Rights Bill passed in 1964, but that virus still has a firm hold on entire regions of this country.

And now, I will make this blog personal.

Fast-forward to June 28th, 2008. The Mormon Church prophet declared through a "letter from the pulpit" in every California congregation that every faithful Mormon had a duty to see that California's Prop 8 was passed. This proclamation, a designer mind virus of the worst kind, inspired blind obedience from every faithful Mormon. It would mean that loving family members would aggressively campaign against the rights of their own siblings, which is what happened in my case. (See my brother's "Yes on Prop 8" blog, which he wrote after I pleaded with him to not campaign against my right to have the same kind of a marital relationship that he enjoys.)

Prior to the "letter from the pulpit," four of my five siblings had indicated that they supported me in my life as a gay man, with a gay partner. I had asked each of them if they would afford me the same courtesy that they did during my 24 year marriage living with my former wife, and that was to allow Mickey and I to sleep together in their home...in the guest bedroom. Four out of five said they would, and the sister who said she would not only declined because her husband was a bigot. My sister is not...or at least she wasn't until the "letter from the pulpit" came out.

Before writing his blog post my brother Fred did absolutely no research on his own about every point that he made in his blog. He simply regurgitated the "talking points" provided to him by the designer virus that his religious leaders infected his brain with. He ignored the fact that minorities who cannot control the vote are still entitled to equal treatment under the law. He also failed to validate any person in California who was not a Christian. He made the assumption that every American would naturally buy into the idea that the constitution had to ultimately answer to the Bible...which is the mother of all fundamentalist Christian "designer viruses."

Thankfully I have many allies in the on-line community and in esteemed universities around the world who are working feverishly to find an antidote for the religiously motivated designer mind viruses. Time is on our side.